Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
Parent taxon: Poaceae according to Q. J. Wang and B. N. Sun 2014
See also Wang and Zhou 2013
Sister taxa: Actinocladum, Bambusa, Cerealia, Chrysochloa, Culmites, Elymus, Eragrosites, Glycerioxylon, Graminocarpon, Greeneochloa, Hubbardia, Hygrorhizos, Iseilema, Lepturus, Lygeum, Monoporopollenites, Neostapfia, Ophiuros, Palaeozea, Sohnsia, Tridens, Walwhalleya, Zea, Zotovia, Andropogon, Graminites, Poacites, Phalaris, Setaria, Palaeophragmites, Sorghum, Pennisetum, Arundinaria, Oryza, Phragmites, Leptaspis, Paleoeriocoma, Humbertochloa, Berriochloa, Panicum, Stipa, Glumophyllum, Oryzopsis, Bromus, Palaeoavena, Bambusites, Saccharum, Festuca, Phyllostachys, Palaeopyrum, Chaetochloa, Stipidium, Muhlenbergia, Triticum, Graminophyllum, Rhizocaulon
Subtaxa: Bambusiculmus Bambusium Dendrocalamus Graminidites
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection)
• Pliocene of India (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (2), Japan (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (7), Australia (1), China (3), India (1), Peru (1)
• Oligocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (9), Australia (3)
• Oligocene of Argentina (5)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Antarctica (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Cuba (1), Germany (1), India (2), Southern Ocean (3), United States (2: Alabama, Missouri)
• Paleogene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Senegal (2)
Total: 53 collections including 62 occurrences